Release Notes (v2.7.4)#
January 23, 2024
The v2.7.4 release fixes a few issues and makes improvements to
the ansi module.
Improved usage and help text syntax highlighting#
The ansi module holds a collection of regular expressions
that apply automatic formatting to usage and help text with
standard syntax.
This change addresses the following:
Section headers are generic match on capitalized word at the start of a line ending in a colon, instead of only matching on a list of magic words.
Metavars (e.g., FILE, ADDR, PORT) are matched on any all-caps word not contained by quotes, not preceded by dash; instead of being a reserved list of magic words.
Match any 4+ character word contained by angle brackets instead of reserved list of magic words. Add small list of special list of reserved resources, including localhost, stdin, stdout, and stderr.
Fix option pattern to include stacked single letter options.
Fix digit matching to include decimals, this also makes IP addresses match like numbers (naive but works).
Add to digit matching suffixes for count (K, M, G, T) along with optional ‘b’ for bytes, case insensitive.